Improvement in paper collars



E. F. BRADFORD.

PAPER COLLAR Patented Nov. 23, 1875.

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N, PETERS, PHDTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, I) O4 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERASTUS F. BRADFORD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER COLLARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170,336, dated November 23,1875; application filed June 24, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERASTUS F. BRADFORD, of Boston, in the county of Sufl'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Paper Collar, of which the following is a specification This invention relates to paper collars and consists in a loop formed as part of or attached to the collar, for the purpose of hold ing the neck-tie in position Within the fold of the collar, substantially as described.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a collar with the end closed, as if about the neck, and

with the neck-tie in position. View of the collar unfolded.

The collar is made to fold on the line a. The part b is made to turn overas a turn-down collar, and its edges 6 d are folded inwardly, as shown. In the folded 'parts at areformed notches constituting loopsc 0, through which Fig. 2 is a back the neck-tie f is passed, as shown in Fig. 2, and when the part b is turned down the necktie is retained up closely into the fold of the ERASTUS F. BRADFORD.

Witnesses G. W. GREGORY, S. B. KIDDER. 

